To Twitter?

You’d have to be living under the Interock for the past two weeks not to know what Twitter is.

Discussion of the application of Twitter to news and newspapers, for networking, GTD (Getting Things Done, etc. has been widespread and creative. I’ve seen a lot of news media people jump on the Twitter wagon.

However, I’m not sure how Twitter could be useful to me. I’m on AIM or have my cellphone with me at all times. I don’t really care if you’re having lunch with so-and-so, watching tv, or grading papers. If I want to see someone, I call or e-mail or IM and ask to do so. Twitter seems to me to take the Facebook stalking phenomenon to a whole new level.

Will I remember to update it? Will my nemesis follow my every move and attack when I’m vulnerable? Will not using Twitter make me look like an old fogie?

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Come for the opportunity to tell all your Internet friends how your breakfast is — without blogging it for the whole world (and the search engines) to see — but stay for the snarky commentary on how someone else’s breakfast went down.

Come for the opportunity to tell all your Internet friends how your breakfast is — without blogging it for the whole world (and the search engines) to see — but stay for the snarky commentary on how someone else’s breakfast went down.

I’m torn like you, but I’m leaning away from Twitter. It doesn’t even sound that cool to me. It sounds like I would forget to update it. I have enough things to track and update online. Plus, this hasn’t reached a critical mass of my friends to make it worth my time. I’m not really sure anyone, myself included, cares what I had for breakfast or where. (But maybe this is because I’m 6 hours away from most of them in a place where nobody’s recognize anything except “work” and “home”?)

I’m torn like you, but I’m leaning away from Twitter. It doesn’t even sound that cool to me. It sounds like I would forget to update it. I have enough things to track and update online. Plus, this hasn’t reached a critical mass of my friends to make it worth my time. I’m not really sure anyone, myself included, cares what I had for breakfast or where. (But maybe this is because I’m 6 hours away from most of them in a place where nobody’s recognize anything except “work” and “home”?)

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I'm looking for my next opportunity to solve user interface problems and make an impact. Currently, I'm teaching code to high school students with CodeNation (formerly ScriptEd) and I'm a contributor on a mobile canvassing app called Reach. Some of my projects are on GitHub. I blog about what I'm learning and random tidbits that catch my fancy. Contact me at mtaylor@megantaylor.org